Biographies & Memoirs

This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how they live...

Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. It's a place where interesting things happen ...

How did the faith and prayers of a humble coal miner affect the course of WWII? Find out in Norman Grubb's updated biography of Rees Howells, who progressed...

In this delectable cookbook and memoir, sisters and stars of the hit TLC series DC Cupcakes inspire readers with their recipe for success: equal parts dete...

a Tour De Force From America's Best True-crime Writer. --kirkus Reviews dr. Debora Green And Her Husband, Dr. Michael Farrar, Seemed To Have It All: A Hap...

Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky, Messiaen . . . Men of genius as different as their music - but all inspired by dee...

A selection of Bierstadt's paintings are accompanied by biographical text and historical commentaries on his role in the depiction of the American West and ...

Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stacespent hours writing a single word – Eternity – on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission to...

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mo...

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has h...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the aut...

The star of the Emmy Award-winning TV shows, Cheers and Frasier recounts his life and career in a funny but moving autobiography, covering his tragic family...

An inspirational memoir from New York Times bestselling author Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York, who, after hitting rock bottom, gathered the strength t...

The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy. When Peter Piot was in medica...

Every experience God gives us . . . is the perfect preparation for the future only He can see.--Corrie ten Boom Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who ...

I like to collect knives, says Angelina Jolie, but I also collect first edition books. At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, ...

AS SEEN ON 48 HOURS — AN EXPLOSIVE ACCOUNT OF LETHAL GREED AND TWISTED DESIRE, FROM THE FILES OF AMERICA'S #1 TRUE CRIME WRITER, ANN RULE They were best...

Neil Peart is an internationally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-nominated author, and for more than thirty years has been the legendary drummer and lyric...

A Portrait Of The Historic Barack Obama Era Features Essays Originally Published In The Atlantic, Including Fear Of A Black President And The Case For Repar...

An incredible true coming-of-age story In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from h...

David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and lo...

25 Nurses, Both In Prose And Verse, Tells Why They Chose Nursing As A Career. Pt. 1. The Calling -- Pt. 2. The Reckoning -- Pt. 3. Reincarnation. Paula Serg...

The Author Of The Gnostic Gospels Draws On Personal Experiences And The Perspectives Of Neurologists, Anthropologists, And Historians To Illuminate The Endu...

Alexander Pantsov And Steven Levine's New Biography Of Deng Xiaoping Does What No Other Biography Has Done: Based On Newly Discovered Documents, It Covers H...

Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas ...

I'm a firefighter, God, so I know I've been in some tough places before. But this . . . this not knowing the people I love . . . this is the hardest thing ...

It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires...

One Of Nine Children Born Into A Penniless North Dublin Family, Nuala O'faolain Was Saved From A Harrowing Childhood By Her Love Of Books And Reading. Thoug...

... A Stunning Biography Of Bruce Springsteen Describing His Life And Work In Vivid Intimate Detail--Categories: Arts & Photography Music Musical Genres...

Product Description From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—a groundbre...

Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers. On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for h...

They had defeated the French and now the English possessed the vast North American Empire. Soldiers, traders, settlers—all began the trek across the wilder...

Nature Noir is the intensely original story—part Edward Abbey, part James Ellroy—of Jordan Fisher Smith's fourteen years as a park ranger on forty-eight...

The World Watched As Chris Norton, A Quadriplegic With A 3% Chance Of Ever Moving Or Feeling Anything Below His Neck, Took Ten Impossible Steps. The Seven L...

Christopher Ciccone's Memoir Is Based On His Forty-seven Years Of Growing Up And Working With His Sister Madonna. Through Most Of Madonna's Career, Christop...

Football's most innovative and successful coarch reveals the philosophy and tactics that shaped the teams of the decade, the San Francisco 49ers. Walsh shar...

Book Club Edition of the popular book.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable PeopleReligious

"Gracefully written and moving ... Things Seen and Unseen starts with Nora Gallagher entering the labyrinth of her life ... and ultimately it leads to the ...

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to b...

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic...

the Blue Sweater Is The Inspiring Story Of A Woman Who Left A Career In International Banking To Spend Her Life On A Quest To Understand Global Poverty An...

A chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls' education. Malala's memoir o...

Two Police Detectives Reconstruct The Investigation Of The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson And Ronald Goldman And The Presentation Of The Evidence At The Tri...

As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christi...

An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians ...

in This Landmark Work Of History, The National Book Award—winning Author Of american Sphinx explores How A Group Of Greatly Gifted But Deeply Flawed Indivi...

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. San Francisco Chronicle A breathless, real-time adventure.....

Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743–1810), Russian princess, playwright, author, President of the Academy of Sciences, and founder and Director of the Russ...